The Grammardog Guide to Short Stories by Joseph Conradcontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the short stories are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Short Stories: The Lagoon, Youth, Amy Foster, The Secret Sharer, An Outpost of Progress.
In tales set in Asia, Africa, and Great Britain, Conrad excels at poetic devices including alliteration ("sleep on the soft sand in the shade"), assonance ("breeder of sheep and deals"), consonance ("green satin ribbon"), repetition ("had been in trouble, or was in trouble, or expected to be in trouble") and rhyme ("a bright light traveling in the night"). Allusions mix superstition with religion and Greek mythology (magicians, witchcraft, Allah, Lord's Prayer, Erebus and Nemesis).
